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ISAVY

I drive a lot so I do not want to put to many miles on the ISF due to depreciation. That is why I want a daily driver.

cadfael_te

I had a Mini Cooper S cabrio for about 5 years before I traded it in on my ISC. It was a good car and it was a LOT of fun. Here's my assesment - Mini = better mileage and way more fun to drive / Civic = more reliable and better fit an finish over all. The MINI also has more goodies to make the drive more fun/easier (ie more luxury options).

BTW, ended up selling the MINI because it was starting to have some minor issues.

Kurtz

iTrader: (1)

You think you'll save enough in depreciation to pay for an entire additional car (including insurance, registration, taxes, scheduled maintenance, etc) as well as make up for the drop-off in experience spending "most" of your time in a slow FWD civic versus an IS-F?

We may have to agree to disagree on that.

Thinktwice

Could not have said it any better!

Now if you said you were interested in getting a used (ie. pre-2005) model Civic, that would make more sense.

ISAVY

Well the daily driver will be around for a lot longer than the ISF. So I do feel like I will save on the depreciation. I have a 2008 ISF with 16k miles on it.

NickTomsyc

New Civic HF is going to get 40+ mpg.... maybe worth a look

darkdream

My teenage brother had the mini cooper s fully loaded, but totalled it (he had the car for about 1.5 years and has like 15k miles on it and insurance paid out $1000 less of the purchase price, which was like $32k- so I would have to say it holds up it's value better than the civic). My parents bought him a new civic as a temporary car and keep as another spare car for the family after my parents get him a M3 within this year. He definitely misse the mini's sportiness, but lives with it knowing he will only have to put up with it for another few months.